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Dear colleagues,
We are organizing a track on *emerging biotechnologies in psychiatry and
clinical psychology* at the upcoming 4S/EASST conference in Barcelona
and welcome submissions to this track from the MedSoc Community (see
details below).
Kind regards,
Jonas and Torsten
Open track at the joint 4S/EASST conference: “Science and technology
by other means: Exploring collectives, spaces and futures”, Barcelona,
Spain 31 August – 3 September 2016
**Emerging biotechnologies in psychiatry and clinical psychology**
Organizers: Torsten Heinemann, University of California, Berkeley, USA
and Jonas Rüppel, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
**Abstract**
New genetics and biotechnologies innovations have revolutionized medical
practices as well as our understanding of health and illness in the past
3 decades. Novel genetic tools, biological tests and (neuro-)imaging
technologies promise better diagnosis and treatment of diseases. The
manifold consequences of emerging biotechnologies in the medicine have
been described by social scientists in various fields and highly
interesting case studies. Theoretically, they have been captured with
concepts such as biomedicalization, geneticization, neurochemical
selves, biosociality, personalization of medicine or biological
citizenship.
Interestingly, emerging biotechnologies are only rarely used in
psychiatric practise. Despite claims that have been made since the
decade of the brain in the 1990s, that is to say the aim that the 5th
revision of the DSM would be entirely based on neurobiological markers,
the diagnosis of mental disorders still relies on questionnaires and
supposedly subjective assessments by mental health professionals. The
treatment with psychiatric medications still mostly follows the
principal of trial and error.
This panel invites papers that explore the use of biotechnologies in
psychiatry or clinical psychology and analyze the social, ethical,
political and legal dimensions. It aims at mapping out the practices and
effects of the biologization, geneticization and the proclaimed
personalization of psychiatry and clinical psychology. Proposals could
address the historical development of these technologies, specific
research settings and uses in psychiatry and clinical psychology as well
as the implications of the application of biomedical knowledge in these
fields.
Deadline for submissions: *21. February 2016*
For enquires and informal discussions please contact us at
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Dr Torsten Heinemann
Marie Curie Fellow
University of California, Berkeley
Institute for the Study of Societal Issues
2420 Bowditch Street #5670
Berkeley, CA 94720-5670
Tel.: +1 510 642 9978
Email: [log in to unmask]
Professor of Sociology
University of Hamburg
Institute of Sociology
Allende-Platz 1, Office 338
20146 Hamburg, Germany
Tel.: +49 40 4 28 38 - 72 13
Fax: + 49 40 4 28 38 - 48 90
Email: [log in to unmask]
Web: www.heinemann.ch
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